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Excellent questions Meeta.I have heard these questions as well. In fact I had similar questions like this when I started with software testing. At least in India I feel testing is still looked upon as an activity anybody could perform. There could be a lot of reasons for this. Let me list some from my own experience• None of us are introduced to software testing in college.• All labs, projects, presentations, workshops in college favored software development.• We saw “n” number of institutes claiming to teach software testing in 10-30 days. How can any one learn software testing in 10 days? If it is possible it has to be pretty straight forward right?• Anyone who was bad at development was moved into testing. I am sure most of them would have become *great testers today, simply because they could write bad code. [*automation is a must to have skill]• I have seen developers who got married move into testing because they feel testing is much easy and they could go home earlier :)• A number of organizations look upon testing as a final activity because a client asks for it.• The standard process and best practices defined.• Bad interviewersAnd most importantly• Tester’s inability to test.

I am sure I can think of a lot more reasons why questions such as the one you have posted crop up. Will keep posting more :) (I feel we can have something like 101 myths to not take up software testing :)